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From: roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How the System Installer Works (Important)
Keywords: Installer
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.160254.18928@lth.se>
Date: 18 Jan 91 16:02:54 GMT
References: <85@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> <1991Jan16.235950.16515@parc.xerox.com> <87@sierra.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <87@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> siegman@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (siegman) writes:
>Reasonable arguments (and as I said, I'm NOT an expert on this).  But:
>
>1) Installer could SAY what it's doing; it could print a log
>("Replaced MUNG resource with updated value"), so you'd know what it
>had, and had not, done.
>
I really support this idea. It is very non-macish, but it would be very
useful for those of us who have to know what is happening. It's not very
convinient to have to run MPW's rezequal...

Of course this should feature should be off by default. I don't care if it
is supported feature of the installer or not, just go ahead and do it!
-- 
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